Our origins lie in translation and interpreting. We certainly do not pretend that we can do your job as a journalist! But we can assist you with your exclusive interview with a sports celebrity or other key figures from abroad. Our network is extensive and can be easily mobilised to reach people abroad.

Would you like to interview a famous foreigner? We have the contacts. We can arrange contact with celebrities and key figures through our network but we can also put you in contact with journalists who speak the language of these celebrities and key figures.

For example, we can put you in contact with South American football players from the major foreign football leagues and arrange interviews with them. We are able to do this due to our contacts with journalists there. Journalists who speak the language of football players and have an affinity with the sport of the interviewee. This gives you an exclusive interview since both they and the person being interviewed can speak freely in their own native languages! All those nuances that rich languages have will come through and because they will understand any play on words or puns.

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The written piece that you produce can be translated by one of our native speakers in any language that may be required. This is true added value! Your reporter can remain at the office doing his or her daily work. No need to travel abroad and, more importantly, you will have an exclusive interview where what has been left unsaid also comes through. Read more!

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Professor Margot van Mulken: "Talking to people in your native language is more effective!"

Professor M. van Mulken who is linked to the Radboud University, [Nijmegen, the Netherlands] has recently studied the importance of conversing in your native language. According to her research, talking to people in your native language is much more effective.

This is because the refined language which a native speaker possesses is optimally used and understood. Puns and play on words are, for example, often not understood at all by a non-native speaker. If two speakers do not speak the same language, they have a choice: one of them adapts to the native language of the other and accepts that he or she will be handicapped when talking or they opt for a language that neither speak fluently, a lingua franca. This will often be English. Funnily enough, it has never been researched which language would be the most effective in this case.

Case:
A foreign journalist interviews an Italian or a Brazilian. The conversation takes place in English, which is not the native language of either of them. A missed opportunity! Prof. M. van Mulken is convinced of this. Her research has shown that conversations and interviews that are not conducted in the native language of the persons involved lack effectiveness!

Margot van Mulken [1963] was born in Geleen, the Netherlands; she studied French language and literature at Radboud University. In 1993 she received her PhD from the VU University in Amsterdam; a year before she was appointed as a lecturer in Business Communication and French at the Radboud University. Margot van Mulken has been a professor in International Business Communication at the Radboud University in the city of Nijmegen since 1 November 2008. She is also the editor of Tekstblad.
See the following website: http://mvmulken.ruhosting.nl/publicaties.html